A multi-agent mediation platform for automated exchanges between businesses
Résumé
To automate electronic exchanges between business, the classical approach is to define beforehand an interacting protocol that must then be rigorously followed. This imposes a costly design time and a constrained runtime. We thus adopt a different approach, representing companies with autonomous agents whose interaction is mediated by an additional agent able to anticipate and resolve interoperability problems at runtime. We build these agents using the agent platform JADE and more precisely we designed an institutional plugin for JADE called JIA, allowing agents to reason about institutional concepts such as obligations, norms and powers. This paper describes the functioning of JIA and its use to create the mediation platform.